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People attend a rally outside Kensington Town Hall to bring attention to the lack of support and action over the Grenfell Tower fire, in London, Sunday Nov. 14, 2021. In 2017 a small kitchen fire in the west London public-housing block turned into the worst domestic blaze in the country since World War II.
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London's Tower Bridge Stuck Open
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the Nissan Motor Co. plant, in Sunderland, England, Thursday, July 1, 2021. Japanese carmaker Nissan and two partners announced plans to invest 1 billion ($1.4 billion) pounds to produce a new model of an all-electric vehicle and batteries in northeast England.
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Nissan will build an all-electric crossover sport utility vehicle.
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, left, sits with Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, ahead of the G7 finance ministers meeting at Lancaster House in London, Friday June 4, 2021.
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In this undated file photo issued by the University of Oxford on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, a researcher in a laboratory at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England, works on the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
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AstraZeneca Manufacturing Error Clouds Vaccine Study Results
In a surprise, the group of volunteers that got a lower dose seemed to be much better protected than the volunteers who got two full doses.
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In this undated file photo issued by the University of Oxford, a volunteer is administered the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, in Oxford, England. With major COVID-19 vaccines showing high levels of protection, British officials are cautiously — and they stress cautiously — optimistic that life may start returning to normal by early April. Even before regulators have approved a single vaccine, the U.K. and countries across Europe are moving quickly to organize the distribution and delivery systems needed to inoculate millions of citizens.
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Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech in London, England on Wednesday, Nov. 27 ahead of the general election on Dec. 12.
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The Labour Party’s Jeremy Corbyn waved 451 pages of documents at a press conference Wednesday.
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